Chris Sale lights up Chicago White Sox president Kenny Williams

Chris Sale has been the most critical opponent of White Sox general manager Kenny Williams’ decision to ban Adam LaRoche’s kid from the clubhouse this week.

Left-handed ace Chris Sale might be the best player on the 2016 Chicago White Sox, but he’s also been the most livid opponent of general manager Kenny Williams’ decision to limit the amount of time the son of recently retired Adam LaRoche spent in the White Sox’s clubhouse.

LaRoche reportedly had it in his two-year contract with the White Sox to allow his 14-year old son Drake in the team’s clubhouse every single day. When Williams told LaRoche that Drake’s time in the clubhouse needed to be halved, the elder LaRoche promptly retired.

Members of the White Sox were furious about Williams decision to effectively ban LaRoche’s son from being in the team’s clubhouse every single day. While this was certainly an atypical workplace arrangement in having a teenager with the team every day for six-plus months, Sale has gone completely off the rails on the whole situation, and USA Today’s Bob Nightengale tweeted out some of Sale’s most critical quotes on the LaRoche/Williams situation.

Needless to say, Sale and Williams are on terrible terms at the moment. For a player certainly capable of headlining a rotation and contending for an American League Cy Young Award, Sale is clearly choosing to side with LaRoche in this clubhouse dispute between player and manager.

While Sale may have loved having LaRoche’s son in the clubhouse every single day, there is belief that his daily presence was distracting to members on the White Sox roster. Chicago hasn’t made the AL postseason since 2008, and while Williams may have had good intentions, LaRoche’s decision to retire for the sake of his son has been like a match on kerosene to White Sox team chemistry this spring.